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[DrForester]

This is NOT an Onion Article

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cleveland-wants-tamir-rice-estate-pay-500-ambulance-bill-n516281

The city of Cleveland filed a claim against the estate of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old fatally shot by police in 2014, seeking $500 in reimbursement for the ambulance ride.

Assistant Law Director Carl Meyer filed the creditor's claim in Cuyahoga County Probate Court on Wednesday, NBC affiliate WKYC reported.

Tamir was shot in the torso by Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann on Nov. 22, 2014, after responding to a report of a "male with a gun" on the swings at a city park.

It turned out the boy had a pellet gun. Tamir died at the hospital the next morning.

"The Rice family is disturbed by the city's behavior," Rice family attorney Subodh Chandra said in a statement to WKYC.

"The callousness, insensitivity, and poor judgment required for the city to send a bill — its own police officers having slain 12-year-old Tamir — is breathtaking," Chandra said in the statement. "This adds insult to homicide. The Rice family considers this a form of harassment."

A grand jury declined to indict Loehmann and his partner, Frank Garmback, in December.

The claim says the $500 "is past due and owing for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent's last dying expense."

Cleveland EMS billed $450 for ambulance advance life support and $50 for mileage, according to the invoice.

Tamir's mother has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Cleveland, Loehmann and the officers involved in the call that ended in the boy's death. The case is pending

 

[univariate]

wow. what can you say, really?

 

[A Link to the Past]

Oh FUCK you, Cleveland, fuck everything

 

[Yaboosh]

That is not a sensitive, sensible move. Not at all.

 

[Raxus]

Between this and the trauma lawsuit makes me really want to go up to the officers and spit in their face.

 

[bodyboarder]

Clearly no fucks given.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

What the fuck

First the cop tries to sue for trauma

Now Cleveland is doing this

The fuck

 

[TheBaldEmperor]

They trying to get Lebron to leave again?

This is dumb as hell.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Surely this was a mistake and someone was too stupid to look at the name and realize who they were about to file a claim against.

...surely....

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

Surely this was a mistake and someone was too stupid to look at the name and realize who they were about to file a claim against.

...surely....

You give people too much credit. Welcome to earf.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

They let him bleed out on the ground

 

[Gordon Shumway]

I'm so sorry for his family. All I can hope is that these people recognize how..wrong this is, and that others recognize THIS WAS A CHILD. Not 17, so "almost a man." Not 19, so "a grown man." I just don't even know what else to say..

 

[Opto]

The blur between insult and injury in this case is phenomenal

 

[Complex Shadow]

Fuck. Off.

How do you even send something like that without some kind of second thought.

 

[Rembrandt]

Fucking terrible people.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

I wish a mod would ban Cleveland, like I requested.

 

[B.O.O.M]

oh for fucks sake

 

[malts]

This is a pretty bad look. The city's PR folks should have shut this down, can't believe this slipped through the cracks.

 

[Volimar]

Surely this was a mistake and someone was too stupid to look at the name and realize who they were about to file a claim against.

...surely....

Yeah this has to be a clerical thing....I hope.

 

[sprsk]

Every life matters so its only fair they pay like anyone else would have to pay when they are murdered by the police.

The rules are the rules guys! 🤷 ¯_(&#12484_/¯

 

[kirblar]

This is a pretty bad look. The city's PR folks should have shut this down, can't believe this slipped through the cracks.

It probably didn't slip through the cracks.

 

[benjipwns]

Everyone calm down, if you look at the claim you can see that they gave the estate a credit of $327.10 towards the total charges. That's almost half!

 

[Megalosaro]

And it's for stuff like this that Cleveland deserves the Browns.

 

[Jeffolation]

Why not charge the family for the ammunition they used too?

 

[FTF]

wtf Cleveland...even for you, this is god damn ridiculous.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

Was it an automated thing orrr? Because if not that's super fucked up.

I remember here, some guy died and a phone company sent his remaining account bill of like 5 cents to his family. But that was an automated issue.

Family must feel like shit recieving that.

 

[RiccochetJ]

Surely this was a mistake and someone was too stupid to look at the name and realize who they were about to file a claim against.

...surely....

I think it's absolutely disgusting that it happened, but I can easily see this sort of thing happening. Someone dropped the ball. I honestly don't think it was intentionally malicious.

 

[bodyboarder]

Why not charge the family for the ammunition they used too?

Taxes.

I think it's absolutely disgusting that it happened, but I can easily see this sort of thing happening. Someone dropped the ball. I honestly don't think it was intentionally malicious.

The state should have been all over it.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Y'all with your sports jokes..on some fuck shit..on a 12 year olds life..

 

[Dai101]

TIL that there are worst human beings than cartel members.

 

[Strike]

 

[Gormless Noodle]

Never ceases to amaze me how low people can sink. Every time you think "that's gotta be it" there's always a next level. Killing that child and then charging the parents for it...

 

[DrForester]

Was it an automated thing orrr? Because if not that's super fucked up.

I remember here, some guy died and a phone company sent his remaining account bill of like 5 cents to his family. But that was an automated issue.

Family must feel like shit recieving that.

The story says it was a claim in probate court. It's more than just a bill. That can't be done automatically, can it?

 

[Stinkles]

The story says it was a claim in probate court. It's more than just a bill. That can't be done automatically, can it?

More or less. Usually farmed out to an agency. Oblivious.


And yes, Europe, a US ambulance ride costs in the region of a grand. Regardless of distance or efficacy.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

The day after this bullshit happens, we get this news.

CPD officer Robert Rialmo has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the estate of Quintonio LeGrier. Rialmo was one of the officers who responded to a call from LeGrier’s father to to assist his son, who was having a mental health crisis. The CPD ended up killing LeGrier and also accidentally shooting neighbor Bettie Jones.

...

Rialmo’s counterclaim charges Quintonio LeGrier with threatening his life, by swinging a baseball bat at him, and also causing him trauma. The lawsuit also blames LeGrier for causing his own death and for the death of Jones.
“The fact that LeGrier’s actions had forced Officer Rialmo to end LeGrier’s life, and to accidentally take the innocent life of Bettie Jones, has caused, and will continue to cause, Officer Rialmo to suffer extreme emotional trauma,” the lawsuit says.

Happy Black History Month.

 

[RiccochetJ]

The state should have been all over it.

Absolutely. Like I said, someone dropped the ball. Or if you prefer, fucked up royally.

 

[Bronx-Man]

There's a point where humans aren't human anymore. These people passed that point long ago.

 

[old]

$500 against the estate of a dead kid. As a minor, wouldn't the parents be able to avoid the cost due to lack of consent?

 

[The Faceless Master]

for the people saying this was an error or mistake or slipped thru, you're wrong.this is a typical retaliatory legal move.

they'll dig up anything they can to try and recoup money after a lawsuit against them is put into play, circumstances be damned.

this was 100% deliberate, 100% planned and 100% thought thru, make no mistakes about it, this is their true intent and not a mistake.

 

[benjipwns]

The story says it was a claim in probate court. It's more than just a bill. That can't be done automatically, can it?

More or less. Usually farmed out to an agency. Oblivious.

Yeah, and I'm going to assume it was probably filed in a huge stack of claims that got stamped with nobody even reading them since they were uncontested overdue fines.

for the people saying this was an error or mistake or slipped thru, you're wrong.this is a typical retaliatory legal move.

they'll dig up anything they can to try and recoup money after a lawsuit against them is put into play, circumstances be damned.

this was 100% deliberate, 100% planned and 100% thought thru, make no mistakes about it, this is their true intent and not a mistake.

Hanlon's razor.

 

[Stinkles]

for the people saying this was an error or mistake or slipped thru, you're wrong.this is a typical retaliatory legal move.

they'll dig up anything they can to try and recoup money after a lawsuit against them is put into play, circumstances be damned.

this was 100% deliberate, 100% planned and 100% thought thru, make no mistakes about it, this is their true intent and not a mistake.

I'll use Occam's razor till I hear different. This is tragically common.

 

[nib95]

What the fuck. This is stupendously low and insensitive.

 

[MIMIC]

Oh my fucking God. I'm from Cleveland and for the first time, I'm actually ashamed of my own city. Callousness and insensitivity is the perfect way -- and ONLY way -- to describe this.

 

[BobLoblaw]

Some people just deserve to be beaten to within an inch of their life. The person that decided to do this is one of them.

 

[TAJ]

More or less. Usually farmed out to an agency. Oblivious.


And yes, Europe, a US ambulance ride costs in the region of a grand. Regardless of distance or efficacy.

And EMTs still make barely over minimum wage. wetoldthemitwouldtrickledownlol.gif

 

[Gordon Shumway]

The day after this bullshit happens, we get this news.



Happy Black History Month.

Fix the police..

 

[Dai101]

Fix the police..

 

[Subpar Scrub]

The story says it was a claim in probate court. It's more than just a bill. That can't be done automatically, can it?

Oh ok, that's interesting. Ambulances are free where I live (everyone in the state pays a small amount on our electricity bill to fund them) so I don't know how they work in the US.

Cheers

 

[Nelo Ice]

Well kinda glad Cleveland sports are so bad that they continuously fail to get a title. But really who thought this was a good idea!?.

 

[ChryZ]

Speechless.